#and this specifically has hops

[extervus]

Think I'm gonna become a mead kinda guy

[bringmoreknives]

guys we have to kill him we just have to

[akiiame-blog]

I wonder if people would be interested in seeing Amazing Digital Circus stuff from me

The recent episode has me officially becoming a fan uh oh

Mario will always be there though, he ain't goin anywhere lmao

[burrythebusy]

Hello im back with more kagizawa

Never trust burry with their memory bc I literally made this FIRST before the small comic(?) I posted a couple of days ago, I made this a whole 6 months before 😭 and im seeing ppl Talk about kagizawa's dynamic and im like *hands rushing through folders* I CANT KEEP UP and also KEEP IT COMING. Because you know. Anything delving into dynamics with The Kagiura Akira I cannot help but like. Salivate over it like its a four course dinner.

Id also like to say that, in my mind while making this, and perhaps something someone has said to me before about it, hanzawa is the kinda guy to be all like. THIS. He seems more dominant and teasing and whatever but. Anything REAL happens and he loses all of it. Confidence 0. Rip hanzawa masato he blew a fuse when kagiura put on his Serious Face (I thought you only used that for basketball well shit!) Puddle on the floor. and Kagiura's like alright dawg we'll get to it sometime. It's cute at least. Holy situationship. Anyways

[talleryn]

Selwyn: When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Selwyn lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the person who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[sunnydreadfu11]

Cancel culture may not be “real” or lasting or whatever, but people DO need to be held accountable for the shitty things they’ve done or said. If you dig into anyone’s past you’re bound to find something you don’t like. It’s part of the human experience to learn and grow from past mistakes, to recognize when you’ve had a bad take that was based in ignorance or hatred. And although I myself have been struggling with forgiving people for things, I can at least appreciate when an artist calls themselves out or makes some type of apology in regards to the not great things they’ve done.

So please stop trying to “point out” things from Kendrick Lamar’s past as an example of why he should be canceled while completely ignoring the fact that his entire discography has been about his journey of healing and growth. I don’t care if you don’t listen to rap. If you bothered to go through his music you’d know that he’s mentioned time and time again that he’s not a perfect person, that he’s done bad things and that he’s put in the work to fix it. This man has rapped about being in therapy. He’s rapped about wanting to be a better role model for his children and community. He grappled with the guilt he felt for making music that contributed to stereotypes or lined the pockets of people who didn’t have his best interest in mind. He rapped about the pain he watched his mother go through, the pain he caused his wife by not being a better spouse. He rapped about the horrors he endured as a child and a teen and how much he’s grown from the dark place he was in bc of it.

If you want to get into his music and you don’t know where to start, just start at the beginning. Kendrick tells a story through his music. It’s a story of evolution and redemption that feels very, very genuine. And LISTEN to the lyrics. Actually try to understand what he’s saying bc even when you think it’s obvious what he’s talking about, I promise you it’s not. He won a Pulitzer for a reason. Another thing you have to understand is that he makes a lot of references to Black American culture, which is very widely copied, but rarely understood or acknowledged. And most of these references are made as a sort of protest.

I’m not here to make anyone feel bad about not knowing Black culture in America and how it differs from other American cultures, but it’s worth understanding, especially if you listen to rap, hip-hop, pop, country, jazz, rock, blues, etc. These are all genres that are rooted in Black American culture and most of them were made to protest oppressive systems. If you love Nirvana then you should understand where Kurt’s influence came from and how he was heavily against racism. If you like country music then you should know where it comes from. If you can listen to BTS and read all the translations of their songs, then you can at least try to understand rap lyrics on a deeper level.

There’s no shame in educating yourself.

[ubersaur]

I feel like I've seen several ppl in the tags recently find and binge dunmesh and I got curious how many ppl had similar experiences 👀👍 edit: if you started but did not keep up with the manga, that still counts as when you started reading ✌

[gothmikewheeler]

girl i have fanfics in my head u wouldnt even dream

[toiletpotato]

hello music enthusiasts of tumblr!

does anyone happen to know of any academic sources that discuss specific styles of hip hop and rap (such as: how early 80s hip hop is has its own distinct style when compared to that of the 90s and that of the 2000s and into the 2010s) as well as any sources that discuss the global diffusion of rap, (and, only if you happen to know of a source) how it got to South Asia

for those that were in tune with the pop culture and music scene of the 2000s/2010s, how would you all classify Akon? Would it be best to describe him as a rapper popular throughout the 2000s, or more so late 2000s/early 2010s?

thank you in advance!!

[syntheta-ac]

"How many times have we had to replace his FCS now, five?"

"This'll be the fifth, yeah. I'm not complaining though, not having to repaint Nachtreiher legs is a serious blessing. Schneider just can't seem to make parts without weird nooks and crannies you have to twist your arm to get to."

"Do we even bother at this point? Seems like the guy doesn't even need the aim assist. His repair costs would be by far the cheapest out of any Vesper if the locals' bullets weren't fucking enchanted to dive right through his FCS chip or something. I honestly don't think he'd notice if we just didn't put a new one in."

"I know you're joking, but just in case you aren't... Rusty might not notice, but V.VII definitely would. And then it's our asses being hauled off to reeducation."

"Yeah. But seriously, we're going to run out of P05's eventually."

[claitea]

why did pokemon stop putting past gen characters in the newer gen's mainline. like ingo was in pla but swsh and sv didnt have any cameos. theres references like sonia's book being in the library but its not ENOUGH

[sysig]

I am not immune to any cutes - including Rick and Morty cutes, unfortunately (Patreon)

[siaanme]

Something I've been thinking about lately on tumblr is the tags, and specifically leaving comments in them

Much has already been said about how they're great for making comments without them getting appended to every reblog of that post (unless someone really likes your tags, of course), and that is great. One of the top features of the tags. But there is something that frustrates me about them now, and I think is contibuting to friction between tumblr users

When I first joined tumblr, tags already were being used for impermanent commentary, but (I'm pretty sure) OPs couldn't see those tags unless they went looking for them. Which I honestly think was a good thing

Now, if you have a popular post that blows up, you are going to be exposed to whatever someone is tagging your post as. And that may be mostly harmless, sometimes funny, but I think it negatively impacts someones ability to make commentary. Just speaking from my own experience, I feel less happy making a joke in the tags, especially if I think thousands of other reblogs have also made that same joke. The OP gets it, and they'll be sick of it. And sure, maybe I don't need to worry about one hypothetical individual being annoyed at me for making an obvious and/or trite joke. But I will anyway.

It also affects other kinds of commentary, not just jokes. For example, right now Monster Hunter Wilds is a big topic among certain users. As a major video game, there are going to be people going through different parts of the game at different times. Some of them will be eager to share their experiences, and they may use the tags of someone else's post to do that. But what if the OP isn't as far through the game as the commenter? And they don't want to be spoiled on some of those moments they haven't gotten to yet? Intentionally spoiling someone is an asshole move, but accidentally spoiling someone is more understandable, though still frustrating. And this wouldn't be a problem, if a post's creator wasn't exposed to all the tags by default, instead of having to go looking for them.

Another thing it factors into is negative commentary, or criticism. To avoid kicking too many hornet's nests, let's talk about Goncharov for a second. I personally did not care for the Goncharov posting – happy for those who did, but it wasn't for me. So again, if I went onto a post explaining why someone loved Goncharov, and commented (not in the tags) "This thing sucks and only people with no taste could like it" that would be an asshole move. It would probably still be an asshole move even if was more nuanced and thoughtful talking about why, for example, I would rather dedicate my media appreciation to things that actually exist, rather than this fictional thing where it is being created en mass by so many different people that things are going to be contradictory leading to no one canon for people to discuss. However, that kind of thing feels a bit more appropriate to talk about in the tags, leaving them safely ignorable to the vast majority of people who just want to collectively invent a Scorsese movie. But with the current way tags are seen by a post's creator, they'd see that. And maybe they'd feel like I'm justing coming onto their post and insulting something they love. Which would not have been my intention, rather my intention was just to explain why I, personally, didn't like something.

I think it ties into some friction between people who use this site like social media, or reddit, versus people who use this as a micro-blogging site. That friction exists elsewhere as well on the internet, but I think it's more obvious here. Some people want to express their opinions about something for the sake of expressing their opinion, others want to discuss those opinions with others. I don't think either of those two groups are in the wrong, and I think that if tags were by default not shown in the creator's notifications, there would be a bit less of this

And sure, there's a temptation to just say "well you should just make your own post then (and hey look, that's what I'm doing), but again, things didn't use to be this way. And sometimes what you want to say is not consequential enough for a separate post (like my Goncharov rant above), but you still want to get it out there. It just frustrates me is all

[npdclaraoswald]

White people reblogging those "tumblr users don't listen to rap" posts with all their excuses about how they've written off an entire genre know that they can just not interact instead of embarrassing themselves on someone else's post, right?

[barrymccaulkinem]

if i thought cunning racist dogwhistling were a respectable skill i'd give huge kudos to the writers of FarCry New Dawn

if you weren't inclined to think about it, you'd think the game agrees with you no matter what your politics. an identity politics liberal sees representation of Black women in the villains, and arent they so girlboss! they'll let me mix and match gender traits in the character creator, how pro-trans!

a fascist sees the story more for what it is: a prolonged fantasy about killing Black people, demonizing hip hop music and public art consistently throughout (btw the villains favorite color to paint shit is pink...) building a christofascist 'utopia' to oppose the fascist boogeyman

[ardeidaze]

help im thinking about hamlet amphibia again. hamphibia